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There are many forks of Android that are used by a lot of people, like LineageOS and GrapheneOS. That is only possible because Android is completely open source
But for most people android is what they get on a samsung for example. Thats full of samsung and google closed source code. A lot of apps rely on google services and you need hacks to makenthem work without it.